Spittoon-cleaner.



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APPLICATION FILED MAI/12.191?.

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SFITTOON CLEANER. APPLICATION HLED lMAY 12. 19H.

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WICENTY DROZDZ, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR 0F ONE-HALF TO MARIAN B. BARSZCZEWSKI, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

SPITTOON-CLEANER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patenten sepa-a5, ier?.-

Applicaton filed May 12, 1917. Serial No. 16,8,32L

'To all 'whom t may concern toon can be lifted and transported to a suit.

able place and then washed and cleaned, without the hands of the operator being placed in or on the spittoon. The device further embodies a carrier and a cleaner mechanism associated therewith.

In the accompanying drawings- Figure 1 is a side elevation of the device;

Fig. 2 is a lan view;

Fig. 3 is a ront elevation; I

Fig. 4 is a section showing the device applied to a spittoon;

Fig. 5 is a detail showing one ofthe springs for holding the spittoon.

In the drawings 1v indicates a shovel vor scoop to the sides of which are iiXed a pair of supports 2, and to the rear of which is `fixed a support 3, these supports extending above the scoop, the upper endsof the supports being bent outwardly to horizontal position as shown at 1 and 5, theseends supporting a plate 6 anda clip 7. The standards 2 'support bearings 8 for theends of a bail or rocker 9 to which is fixed a tube 11 supporting a gear casing 10 at its outer end. Ashaft 12 extends through the tube 11, and has at one end a bevel gear 13 and atv the otherend a crank arm 14E to which is connecteda wire 15 bentto conform to the inside of a spittoon and to this 'wire is connected a chain mesh 17 and a brush 16. A gear 18 is su ported in thegear casing and is connecte to a hand crank 19, A handle 21 isl also connected to the outer end of the gear casing, by a plate 20.

Each side of the scoop is provided with a flat spring22'and the rear of the scoop is provided with a curved lstrip 23 supported by a Hat-spring 2G and'provided with a pin 2li extending through the back ofV the scoop, with a knob 25'on the outer'end.

A pin 27 is connected by a chain 28 to the gear casing 10, and may bexinserted through a hole 29 in the gear casing into a hole 30 in the gear 18 to lock the gears when desired to prevent swinging of the crank or turning of the cleaner.

In the use of the device, the handle portion is swung down as shown in Fig. 1 until the tube 11 is engaged by the clip 7, and then it may be used as a scoop or shovel to take up the spittoon, which may then be carried to a convenient place for cleaning.

Then by swinging the handle portion up to vertical position as shown in' Fig. 3 and turning the crank 19, the shaft 12 and its crank 14 are rotated carryingthe' brushv and chain around the inside of the spittoon to dislodge all matter therein, after which the handlemay be swung down and the spittoon carried back and dislodged from the scoop by pressing in 0n the pin l24s to force the spittoon beyond the springs 22 and I permit it` to be slid oft onto the floor.

I claim:

1. A spittoon cleaner, comprising a scoop in which the spittoon may be carried, a handle connected to the scoop, and a cleaner supported by the handle and projecting therefrom in position to extend into a spittoon in the scoop.

2. A spittoon cleaner, comprising a scoop in which the spitton maybe carried.v a handle pivoted to the scoop, and a movable cleaning device mounted on the handle and projecting at the inner end thereof, in pov and a shaft supported by the handle and provided With a cleaner at its inner end and means to rota-tc the same at its outer ehd. i

4. A spittoon cleaner comprising aiscoop in which they spittoon may be carried, a

I handle pivoted to the scoop, a Catch to en- In testimony whereof, I do aH-Xumy stigmagage the handle at the back of the scoop, ture in presence of two Witnesses. for operation n the manner of a shovel and y a cleaning device mounted on the handle WICENTY DROZDZ' and projecting from the inner end thereof Witnesses:

to extend into a spittoon in the scoop when JOHN A. BQMMHARDL' the handle is swung up. G. N. RQSENBERG. 

